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The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology
The Contested Castle Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology
Author: Kate Ferguson Ellis
The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture--the idealization of the home and ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780252060489
ISBN-10: 0252060482
Publication Date: 6/1/1989
Pages: 248
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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